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Successful cluster administration can be very difficult without a real-time view of the state of the cluster. Solr itself does not provide aggregated views about its state or any historical usage data, which is necessary to understand how the service is used and how it is performing. Knowing the throughput and capacities not only helps detect errors and troubleshoot issues, but is also useful for capacity planning.

Combining CDH with a business execution engine can serve as a solid foundation for complex event processing on big data.

Event processing involves tracking and analyzing streams of data from events to support better insight and decision making. With the recent explosion in data volume and diversity of data sources, this goal can be quite challenging for architects to achieve.

Complex event processing (CEP) is a type of event processing that combines data from multiple sources to identify patterns and complex relationships across various events.

The super-active Apache Spark community is exerting a strong gravitational pull within the Apache Hadoop ecosystem. I recently had that opportunity to ask Cloudera’s Apache Spark committers (Sean Owen, Imran Rashid [PMC], Sandy Ryza, and Marcelo Vanzin) for their perspectives about how the Spark community has worked and is working together, and the work to be done via the One Platform initiative to make the Spark stack enterprise-ready.

Thanks to Wuheng Luo, a Hadoop and big data architect at Sears Holdings, for the guest post below about Pig job-level performance tuning

Many factors can affect Apache Pig job performance in Apache Hadoop, including hardware, network I/O, cluster settings, code logic, and algorithm. Although the sysadmin team is responsible for monitoring many of these factors, there are other issues that MapReduce job owners or data application developers can help diagnose,

This post contains answers to common questions about deploying and configuring Apache Kafka as part of a Cloudera-powered enterprise data hub.

Cloudera added support for Apache Kafka, the open standard for streaming data, in February 2015 after its brief incubation period in Cloudera Labs. Apache Kafka now is an integrated part of CDH, manageable via Cloudera Manager, and we are witnessing rapid adoption of Kafka across our customer base.